A pulley hangs over a well at the Old English fort, which previously housed a now defunct slavery museum in the slave port of Ouidah, Benin. (Photo: Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters) KUNTA KINTEH ISLAND, ...

Filming in the Gambian fields for the documentary, “Kunta Kinteh Island: Coming Home Without Shackles.” Elvin Ross Studio Courtesy A descendent of Kunta Kinteh, the slave at the heart of Alex Haley’s ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

KING 5 News sat down with Lamin Jatta, the ninth descendant of Kunta Kinteh, to talk about a new documentary called Kunta Kinteh Island directed by Elvin Ross. Jatta was in Tacoma Friday to promote ...

But the island where he and tens of thousands of west African slaves faced the horrors of being chained, branded and separated before leaving their homeland forever, is under threat from sea erosion ...

James Island and Related Sites present a testimony to the main periods and facets of the encounter between Africa and Europe along the River Gambia, a continuum stretching from pre-colonial and ...

Loyola University presents Kunta Kinteh Island: Coming Home Without Shackles tonight. Ben Vereen stars in the film and will attend the screening. Vereen starred as Chicken George in the 1977 ...

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